Quip — August 22, 2026
In 1995, I participated in an online panel hosted by Feed with Mark Slouka, William Mitchell, and Stacy Horn about the future of virtual communities:
"Are the communities of interest facilitated by computer networks a wayof revitalizing civil institutions through civil communications, or arethey fostering a dangerous illusion of civil association that doesn’t have an effect in the world where things like liberty matter. If a community doesn’t have the power to prevent the state from stealing the freedom of its citizens, for example, these arguments are academic. Right now, there is a fight going on in American power circles, over who will control the communications media that make virtual communities possible. "